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Sentiment Analysis (detecting document’s polarity, subjectivity and emotional states) is a difficult problem and several times I bumped into unexpected and interesting results. One of the strangest things that I found is that despite the fact that neutral class can improve under specific conditions the classification accuracy, it is often ignored by most researchers. During […]

In this article we will see how we can build a WordPress plugin which uses Machine Learning to block spam, adult or even negative comments from our blog. The plugin is compatible with WordPress 3.6v or higher and uses Datumbox API 1.0v. Even though this article discusses the development of a WordPress plugin, we should […]

In my Thesis project for the MSc in Statistics I focused on the problem of Sentiment Analysis. The Sentiment Analysis is an application of Natural Language Processing which targets on the identification of the sentiment (positive vs negative vs neutral), the subjectivity (objective vs subjective) and the emotional states of the document. I worked on […]

In this article we will show how you can build a simple Sentiment Analysis tool which classifies tweets as positive, negative or neutral by using the Twitter REST API 1.1v and the Datumbox API 1.0v. Even though the examples will be given in PHP, you can very easily build your own tools in the computer […]